Australian Dance Awards

Outstanding achievement in independent dance

First awarded 2003

2008

Shaun Parker for This Show Is About People, a courageous, dramatic and entertaining work, fusing dance and live music to create a unique theatrical experience; for breathtaking performances and beautifully integrated ensemble work.
2006

Clare Dyson for Churchill’s Black Dog. For a work of rare and complex choreographic logic and aesthetic, a demanding and assured piece of dance theatre with structural clarity and subject matter that required sophisticated psychological distillation by the choreographer and her collaborating artists.
2005

Julie-Anne Long for The Nun’s Picnic
2004

Kate Denborough for Nowhere Man (Kage Physical Theatre)
2003

Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham for Morphia Series